Professional Activities and Background:
Freelance Russian translator, 1974 to present: Fiction, history, politics, economics, literary criticism, fine arts, philosophy, video games; for commercial publishers, university and small presses, commercial agencies, U.S. government, Unesco, United Nations
Freelance manuscript editor, 1978-1991: History, economics, sociology, fiction, philosophy, cooking, health, literature, fine arts, translations, for commercial, scholarly, and university presses. Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1989: first-year Russian; Assistant Editor, Praeger Publishers, 1976-1978; Secretary of the Russian School, Middlebury College, 1975
Assistant editor, 1976-1978, Praeger Publishers, New York
Certified in Russian-English translation by the American Translators Association; approved by the U.S. State Department, U.S. Open Source Center, Unesco
Awards: 2009 AATSEEL Award for Best Translation into English for Mikhail Bulgakov's White Guard; Translation Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 2006 and 1988; International Ambassador for Cultural Exchange, Russian-American Center of Dallas, 2005; Heldt Translation Prize, Association of Women in Slavic Studies, 2002; Soeurette Diehl Frasier Translation Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2007 and 1999; Novella-in-Translation Award, The Literary Review, 1985
Professional affiliations: American Literary Translators Association (president, 2001-2003; vice-president, 1999-2001; secretary, 1997-1999; board member, 1993-1995); PEN Translation Committee; American Translators Association. Juror: ALTA National Translation Award (1997-2001), PEN Translation Prize (2003), PEN West Translation Prize (2003), AATSEEL Translation Prize (2003-2005 ), AWSS Heldt Translation Prize (2006)
Education: M.A. ’75 Slavic languages and literatures, University of Texas at Austin. University fellowship, 1975; A.B. ’73 Russian language and literature, Harvard University; Certificate, Spring ’73, Leningrad State University, USSR
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The graphics used on this site were inspired by the work of Liubov Popova (1889-1924), a Russian artist and designer influenced by Constructivism and Futurism, as seen in her biography, by D.V. Sarabianov and N.L. Adaskina, Liubov Popova, translated by Marian Schwartz and published by Harry N. Abrams in 1990.